Richard Feynman
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Theoretical physicist (1918 to 1988); shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics; at the California Institute of…
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Scientists must above all not fool themselves, and they are the easiest people to fool (opens korrents.com)
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.”
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Whoever puts out a theory must also report all the facts that disagree with it (opens korrents.com)
“If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it.”
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Scientists should give all the information others need to judge their work, not just what points one way (opens korrents.com)
“In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.”
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Scientists must above all not fool themselves, and they are the easiest people to fool (opens korrents.com)